Mining Incidents

Blue Lake Mine Metal/Non-Metal

Controlled by Malcome Draughn
Petal, Forrest County, MS  ·  Abandoned
MSHA Mine ID: 2200702

Blue Lake Mine has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 3 contested dockets, plus health sampling and the full incident record.

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Fatalities
0
Total incidents
0
Years on record
Latest incident
Compliance record
MSHA citations since 2001
49
citations
17
significant & substantial
$6,980
proposed penalties
$6,797
paid to date
97% of proposed penalties paid to date, a $183 gap.
Source: MSHA violations data, updated weekly.
Inspection activity
MSHA inspections since 2001
30
inspections on record
324
inspection hours
n/a
citations per 100 inspection hours
This rate is recorded citations divided by MSHA inspection hours, per 100 hours. It reflects inspection effort, not mine size or production.
Rate withheld: 324 inspection hours is too few for a stable rate. A minimum of 1,000 inspection hours is required.
Source: MSHA inspections data, updated weekly.

Blue Lake Mine has $7K in proposed MSHA penalties and $0 outstanding across 3 contested dockets.

Penalty disposition
Differences between proposed and paid penalties reflect both settlements and conference reductions and amounts still owed. Outstanding is the balance currently owed.
$7K
proposed penalties
$7K
current assessed
$7K
paid to date
$0
outstanding
47 assessments are final orders; 3 contested dockets.
As of the most recent assessment on 2010-11-02.
Source: MSHA assessed-violations and conference/litigation data, updated weekly.
Quarterly safety rates
Citations per million reported employee-hours. Rates begin in 2000, when MSHA's quarterly employment data starts; earlier incidents are counted but cannot be rate-adjusted. Quarters under 100,000 reported hours are greyed: too few hours for a stable rate.
Citations per million employee-hours, as reported to MSHA
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2011 Q4 0 0 0
2011 Q3 287 0 0 0.0
2011 Q2 493 0 0 0.0
2011 Q1 490 0 0 0.0
2010 Q4 480 3 0 6250.0
2010 Q3 540 0 0 0.0
2010 Q2 561 2 0 3565.1
2010 Q1 569 0 0 0.0
Show 40 earlier quarters
Quarter Hours worked Citations S&S Per 1M hrs
2009 Q4 584 5 1 8561.6
2009 Q3 598 0 0 0.0
2009 Q2 597 4 1 6700.2
2009 Q1 560 0 0 0.0
2008 Q4 0 0 0
2008 Q3 608 0 0 0.0
2008 Q2 863 3 2 3476.2
2008 Q1 808 3 1 3712.9
2007 Q4 227 0 0 0.0
2007 Q3 307 0 0 0.0
2007 Q2 1,146 4 1 3490.4
2007 Q1 1,252 0 0 0.0
2006 Q4 882 0 0 0.0
2006 Q3 596 0 0 0.0
2006 Q2 716 0 0 0.0
2006 Q1 448 0 0 0.0
2005 Q4 632 0 0 0.0
2005 Q3 619 0 0 0.0
2005 Q2 1,054 0 0 0.0
2005 Q1 663 0 0 0.0
2004 Q4 679 2 0 2945.5
2004 Q3 691 0 0 0.0
2004 Q2 1,644 10 6 6082.7
2004 Q1 2,249 0 0 0.0
2003 Q4 2,264 0 0 0.0
2003 Q3 2,516 0 0 0.0
2003 Q2 2,353 0 0 0.0
2003 Q1 1,385 3 1 2166.1
2002 Q4 1,033 0 0 0.0
2002 Q3 1,252 0 0 0.0
2002 Q2 1,584 0 0 0.0
2002 Q1 2,096 3 2 1431.3
2001 Q4 2,725 0 0 0.0
2001 Q3 2,621 0 0 0.0
2001 Q2 1,987 3 1 1509.8
2001 Q1 1,890 4 1 2116.4
2000 Q4 2,229 0 0 0.0
2000 Q3 2,281 0 0 0.0
2000 Q2 2,319 0 0 0.0
2000 Q1 1,111 0 0 0.0

No reportable incidents on file.

MSHA has no recorded reportable accidents for this mine in the current dataset. New reports appear here within a week of being filed.

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The full compliance file on Blue Lake Mine

A dated report covering the 26-year penalty trail, line-item violation pattern, contest and docket posture, rate-normalized peer benchmark, and full fatality history. Delivered as a PDF with the underlying data as CSV.